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I see ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '\\wsl$\rancher-desktop-data\etc\hosts' · Issue #2728 has exactly the same error message. It claims it was due to Cygwin

tar

being on the

PATH

. Check if this could be your issue too.

For me it looks like there was some half-installed/uninstalled parts of RD causing some disconnects. I would uninstall RD and then make sure that the rancher distributions are gone in WSL

wsl -l -v

and manually take action if needed. Then swing through the install location (User or system install matters there) and make sure things were removed. Then reinstall and see if rancher-desktop-data is properly registered and the bootstrap can access it.

This got fixed after adding "C:\WINDOWS\system32\" to my system variables PATH. Thanks guys!

hah yeah that is an important one to be in PATH. not sure how that got wiped but lots of things will be weird in that case